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For 11,162 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 56% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 7.5 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 57
Highest review score: 100 Hooligan Sparrow
Lowest review score: 0 Followers
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,708 out of 11162
  2. Mixed: 4,553 out of 11162
  3. Negative: 1,901 out of 11162
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  1. LBJ
    LBJ slips from an examination of a sometimes admirable leader into a hagiographic daydream, a fantasy of a father figure to save us all. That’s a matter of Reiner’s politics, of course, but even more so a matter of his instincts as a popular filmmaker: He’s offering us an American presidency to escape to.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Whole New Thing
    Half-new at most, this "Running With Scissors"–type tale of a precocious, effeminate teen who gets hot for teacher while prepping for a life in the arts isn't evidently autobiographical. Neither is it funny--or poignant or insightful or remotely worth one's time.
  3. The First Purge
    The First Purge actually pulls back somewhat on that sense of bloodthirsty anticipation. The violence here feels more tragic than ever, and it’s also some time coming; when Purge Night does start, the killing doesn’t begin immediately.
  4. Fierce People
    Whereas most of the injustices suffered by "Nanny's" nanny are of the skin-deep variety, the hopelessly reductive Fierce People ups the ante.
  5. Cymbeline
    This Cymbeline is brash and inventive and more than a little wild. Perhaps we've been wrong about this play all along.
  6. The Misfortunates
    Often very funny, and the rolling remember-when vignettes trump the typical low-country wild-hairy-man sideshows.
  7. Fairhaven
    Messina's performance has a lived-in, emotional messiness, but the film is nothing but clichés.
  8. Entanglement
    Ben’s carefully plotted healing diminishes the complexity of mental illness, and gives James’s sweet vision a bitter aftertaste. Filiatrault uses too-neat bookending in the place of dramatic resolution, so that the story of a man hanging on by a thread is nicely tied up in a bow.
  9. What We Did on Our Holiday
    Jones and Connolly have terrific chemistry, particularly as Lottie works through the fact that adults encourage dishonesty and lying when it suits their own needs, and that secrets are more pervasive than openness.
  10. Clip
    Milos's film pulses with f#*!-it-all abandon and chintzy eastern-Euro club beats.
  11. The Discovery
    While the film is ambitious, with enough intrigue and uneasy moral quandaries to keep my attention rapt in the end it just doesn’t make the leap to the other side.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Bobby
    Bobby can be seen clearly for what it is--an "Airport" movie with the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy as the central calamity and an all-star cast deployed like multiple George Kennedys.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A Decent Factory
    A Decent Factory is just as much about the motives of the people asking the questions as those of the people avoiding the answers.
  14. The Forgotten Space
    Epic in scope, intellectual agility, and the potential to induce panic and despair, this documentary exploration of global trade as an emblem of economic apocalypse avoids (just barely) doom-mongering by virtue of its compassion and visual grandeur.
  15. Redlegs
    The trio's mourning feels more like immature self-absorption.
  16. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
    While it has its moments, Miguel Arteta's comedy relies too much on gender-shaming and emasculation jokes.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Exterminating Angels
    One audaciously, endearingly ludicrous movie.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Portraits chinois
    The performances are uniformly strong.
  19. Freeze Me
    Ishii's rough-hewn film may be the nastiest entry in its dubious but resonant subgenre since "I Spit on Your Grave." It's a black pearl for anyone who likes a little existential psychosis with their semi-softcore exploitation.
  20. Warriors of Heaven and Earth
    Comfortably familiar. It lacks the tension between grandeur and intimacy that characterizes the films it apes.
  21. Malèna
    A nostalgic coming-of-age sex comedy tastefully lecherous enough to indicate that its intended demographic is several decades past puberty.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    An Adolescent
    Although the movie drags, Okuda (who also directed) makes for a gloriously bad lieutenant, while Ozawa is enjoyably discomfiting in her unblushing carnality.
  23. Paper Heart
    A documentary except when it's a mockumentary, this is all kinds of adorable and heartbreaking--the doc part, at least.
  24. Dare
    Zach Gilford's game performance is still no match for the film's catalog of easy ironies, awkward framings, and advice on how to play Blanche DuBois.
  25. Desert Flower
    Luckily, her cast makes up for the lapses, and Kebede is especially effective at showing how triumph over culturally sanctioned brutality remains a tentative prospect at best.
  26. Oblivion
    The good news: Here's a lavish, serious science-fiction picture, one that on occasion transcends big-budget hit-making convention to glance against grandeur...Which brings us to Tom Cruise, the not-necessarily-good news. However engaging its end-times mysteries, Oblivion is still a Tom Cruise movie.
  27. The Girl
    Hernandez is soulful and affecting, though, and Cornish embodies Ashley's self-centered character with nuance and subtlety.
  28. The Berlin File
    The Berlin File keeps narrative coherence far down on a priority list that privileges expertly choreographed hand-to-hand combat, hair-raising stunt work...and such familiar genre accoutrements as secret rooms hidden behind bookshelves, shiny metallic attaché cases, and pens concealing fast-acting vials of poison.
  29. The ROMEOWS
    Artistry isn't the business of this film, and neither, to any great extent, is grasping the details of the anecdotes these men tell; like any meal, it's the flavor that matters.
  30. Rock in the Red Zone
    Bialis's growing immersion in the town is poignant, even admirable.
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